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THE H©U§EHOLD>m=§unppllememm ‘

 

 

FORESHADO WED.

 

BY A. H. J.

 

Under the rounded, dimpled chin,
1 tie her hat-strings into a bow,
And plead for a parting word and kiss
With the tender love that. all mothers know.

She gives them both in a hasty way,
Then nances off in her merry glee,

To join a group of her mates at play,
With never a backward glance for me.

And, as I turn to my work, I look
On I picture held in the clasp of years,
Till my heart grows sad with keen regret,
And my eyes are heavy with unshed tears.

For I see the time when. bright and glad,
In youth‘s fair world she will seek her part, '
With but little thought for the woman sad,
Whom she leaves behind, with a lonely heart.
Tnonas, Mich, April 28th, 1884.

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HOW MUCH SHALL SHE BEAR?

In one of A. H. J .’s letters she asks what
the bride of a few months can do when
she finds her husband is a gambler, liber-
tine, drunkard, or heartlessly cruel, points
out several paths she may choose. but
advises her to keep silent until her wrongs

become unbearable, and let the world

first hear them through legal steps for a
separation. This is the only dignified—I
had almost said decent—course, the only
one a self respecting woman can pursue.
To parade ahusband’s misdoings before
the public is not a wife’s part, no matter
how ill treated; the world should only
know what it can see. ‘

But the question how much a wife
should bear before resorting to man’s law
to release her from the promises of her
wedding day, is of cons1derable moment.
There is no denying that this easy rupture
of the marriage bond is the great and
threatening danger of the times. The
proportion of divorces to‘ marriages is

, something appalling, (it has doubled

within twenty years.) especially when we
remember that every divorce means a
home destroyed, a family sundered, and
generally children deprived of one or the'
other of their natural protectors. The re-
mark is often made that if people cannot
live together peaceably and happily, it is
better they should separate—and, in—
ferentially, each seek a new union and.
greater harmony. But this free and easy
change of partners leads directly to social

‘ anarchy, and, to the destruction of every

tie that mankind is bound to hold sacred;
and would shortly place us upon a level
with barbarous tribes, where family ties

-~are cobweb fetters.
he four legal grounds for separation, '

 

unfaithfulness, conviction of crime, habi
tual drunkenness and gross cruelty, have
been increased in some States to nine!
The charge of cruelty is made to cover
those who tire of their companion, see
some one they like better, or are inclined
to return' ’to the old freedom of single
life. The legal gentleman of our dinner-
table remarked recently that four-fifths
of the divorces granted were for alleged
cruelty and “incompatibility of temper.”
The parties had simply tired of each other
and wanted to take another chance in the
matrimonial grab-bag. One item in the
bill of complaint in a divorce case was
the refusal of the husband to buy a fur-
lined circular for the wife! Asix-footer
weighing acouple of hundred avoirdupois
was released from a petite lady whom he
could almost have put in the pocket of
his Newmarket, on the grounds of “ex-
treme cruelty !” In nine cases out of ten
8. third person waits just outside the
court-room, and when the decree is grant‘
ed, the marriage of one or'the other of
the divorced parties follows quick upon
it. “Marry in haste and repent till you
can get a divorce,” seems the sentiment
of the day.

Shall a wife leave her husband because,
like the renowned “pumpkin eater,” he
has “married a wife and cannot keep
her” inher accustomed luxury? Because
her married life does not come up to the
ideal existence she pictured, because her\
husband has grown careless and neglect-
ful, because she has allowed the deadly
chill of indifference to settle over her own
heart, because she has seen some one else
she likes better—none of these justify her.
Mutual forbearance is the vital necessity
of the married life. The secret of social
success is to wound no one’s self—love.
anl this gives us a key to help keep the
marriage relationship happy.

“ For still in mutual suifrance lies
The secret of true living;
Love scarce is love that nchr know
The sweetness of forgiving."

If the marriage tie were thought to be
more irrevocable, if the wife took the
pains to keep the husband that she did to
win the lover, if the husband would not
forget the courtesy and tenderness which
won him favor in his fiancee’s eyes, if both
would conspire to make love a constant
fireside guest, the coleur de rose would not
fade with the waning of the honeymoon.
What most destroys our happiness is so
Often what we might blameourselves for,
our own follies and mistakes. ~

If a girl knows before marriage that

 

her husband-to-be drinks, gambles or is a

 

libertine, but rests her happiness upon
the frail hope of reforming him after-
ward, is she justified iu appealing to the
law to release her from acovenant she
entered into with her eyes open? The
Supreme Court of Iowa has just decided
this point, and girls contemplating mar

riage will do well to heed the warning.
The judge refused the petition ofa wife,
whose husband was a confirmed drunk-
ard, when the evidence showed she knew
him to be intemperate when she married
him, saying: “You voluntarily chose a
drunkard for a husband. His promise of
reformation made before marriage, does
not justify you’ in deserting him. Having
knowingly married a drunkard, you
must content yourself with the relation-
ship.” The sentiment applies to other
conditions as well. Girls, if the young
man who comes wooing you has any of
these vices, which will so surely render
your life miserable if persisted in, wait;
let him reform first. If he will not re-
form, and wait until you are convinced
that it is no passing spasm of amendment,
give him up, no matter how dear he is.
Better a sharp pain which time will heal,
(ah,-you think you can “never get over
it,” but you will) rather than a wretched
lifetime spent in endurance. And when
you do marry, resolve to abide by your
bargain; bear all things, endure all things; '
and only seek release when both God’s
law and man’s agree in setting the union

aside. BEATRIX.
“6...“.

THAT WOOD-BOX OF MlNE.

 

I have spent my life thus far “ina
struggle with dirt," but now the unequal
warfare is at an end, and all because of
that wood-box of mine. In every farm-
er’s family where the woman does her
own work‘the kitchen is, in reality, the-
living room for the first half of the day,
and when a neighbor drops in of an er
rand, or for a hasty morning call, they
are very likely to sit down there for a few
minutes’ chat while the woman goes on
with her work. The kitchen where “ I
am monarch of all I survey " is large,
high, light, and pleasant, but instead of
giving each caller a seat with ease and
grace (I) I was always obliged to make a
dash for broom and dust-pan to brush up
the litter from the wood~box, that was
filled to overflowing and scattering dirt
and bits of bark all over the region
round about. Much of the wood used by
farmers comes from the tops of trees used
for sawlogs or rails, or from “picking

,up” the woods, and such makes any

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INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE

 

THE HOUBEHOLD.

 

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Two Methods of Treating Foul ‘
Brood.

Dr. A. B. Mason, in apaper on the cause
and cure of foul brood, read before the
Southeastern Michigan Bee Keepers’ As-
sociation, gave three methods of treating -
this .much dreaded disease, asvfollows:

“ The first I tried was Mr. Muth’s
method, with salicylic acid.- I took dis-
infected hives and put in frames filled
with foundation, and set the hive near
where the diseased colony stood. I then
shook and brushed all the bees into, or in
front of the new hive, (none of the bees
should be afloWed to enter any other
colony). I then removed the infected
hive and combs to a place where no bees
could find them, till I had time to extract
the foul honey, melt the combs, and boil
the hive. . I then fed the colony about a
pint of boiled honey each day for a week-

To this honey I added salicylic acid as‘

directed by Mr. Muth. His directions
are sixteen grains of borax, sixteen grains
of salicylic acid and an ounce of
water, and put this amount in each quart
of honey. I boil all infected honey be-
fore using it to feed bees. Some have
reported that this method has proved a
failure with them, but with myself and
others in this locality, it has been a per-
fect suCcess.

“Another method of curing the dis-

'ease, is the starvation plan, and I was as
successful with this as with the acid plan.
I shook the bees into a clean hive and
confined them until they had consumed
the honey taken in their honey-sacs,
'which was shown by their beginning to
fall from the cluster. A more conven-
ient way would have been to put wire
cloth on the top of a hive, or box, and
place it on its side. so as to be able to see
when the bees fall from the cluster. I
then gave them clean hives with founda-
tion. I had two colonies that seemed
bound not to starve.' One held out for
nine days, and the other for ten days, be
fore showing any signs of giving up the
struggle.

,“ The other method I call the California
plan; and it proved to be so much more
troublesome. that I tried but few colonies
by it, In the evening, cage the queen;
the next evening tie the queen cage to an
empty frame; place it in a clean hive

and shake all the bees into the same hive; ‘

leaving them so that they can fly for three
days, and then shake them into a clean
hive, and release the queen. I pre-
fer Mr. Muth’s plan with salicylic acid;

because the bees can be at work, drawing-

out foundation and. gatheringhoney, and
the queen may deposit eggs. .
“ All infected honey should be boiled
before feeding to the bees‘; all combs
melted; and all hives boiled before being
used again. washing with the acid solu.
tion, I believe, will answer the same pur-
pose as boiling, but is more trouble for
me. I have kept a bottle of the solution
on hand with Which to disinfect my
hands, smoker, knife, etc, before going

 

to any other colony or work, after hand~
ling a foul broody one.

“Failure has been reported from all
these methods; but I believe something
has been omitted, or something ever-
done where such failure has occurred,
and here is such a case: A party trying
the California method reported it a fail-
ure, but they did not follow the instruc-
tions. Instead of putting the bees in a
empty hive, he put in ‘some drone combs
for the bees to cluster on,’ and the bees
put the honey taken with them, in the
empty cells, and so had a good start for
foul brood.”

—————o—.—o——-

Dn. MILLER, who has been examining
bees dead of diarrhoea by aid of a micros-
cope is said by H. C. Whitlow, in the Bee
Journal, to have discovered as follows:
“Bees thathad been dead 24 or 48 hours
Were taken, and the yellow brown matter
(the same that is discharged by the live
bees before death) was mixed with matter
to clarify it, and when submitted to ex-
amination under the microscope, a mass
of pollen grains could be plainly seen.
Most of the pollen grains are so perfect
that the class of plants from which they
came can be identified. The contents of
the bodies of many dead bees were ex-
amined carefully, and in every instance
this yellowish-brown mass was pollen,
and sometimes mingled with honey. The
fact that all the bees were full of this
pollen, and that being in a state of partial
decomposition and undigested, strongly
points to the conclusion that pollen is
the primary cause of the disease.

.———.——.—.—.———

THE American Agriculturist says: “As
is known, bees become irritable if handled
after gathering ceases in the autumn. To
take out extra comb, extract the uncap-
ped honey, and prepare for winter, is
often the most dreaded work of the sea-
son. The bees seem cross at the failure
to obtain labor, and cannot endure dis
turbance. By using a bee tent, made of
wire gauze or mosquito netting, and large
enough to set over the hive and operator
all this danger and trouble is avoided.
The bees are apparently frightened into
good behavior, and are as amiable as
though in the midst of the honey harvest.
The bee tent also prevents robbing, which
is quite likely to be induced if we work
with the bees when they are irritable
from enforced idleness.

-——-.-o—.—e—-——-

IN Germany the hives used are about
the same size as those used here. That
the hives were placed, as a rule, closer
together than we do in America. That
almost invariably the hives are placed
under a cover something like a, pavillion
and that not infrequently a house is built
open at» the base, where a great number
of hives are placed, while in the next
story the family of the apiarist take'up
their abode. ‘

IN answer to a question put at the Tus-
cola County Bee~Keepers’ Convention, as
to the proper time to remove bees from
their winter quarters. W. Z. Hutchinson
said he would not remove until willows
and soft maples were in bloom.

 

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depart on Central Stan ard time, which is 28 min-
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[GRESHADO WED.

 

BY A. B. J.

 

Under the rounded, dimpled chin,
1 tie her hat-strings into a bow,
And plead for a parting word and kiss
With the tender love that all mothers know.

She gives them both in a hasty way,
Then canoes off in her merry glee,

To join a group or her mates at play,
With never a backward glance for me.

And, as I turn to my work, I look
On a picture held in the clasp of years,
Tlllmy heart grows sad with keen regret,
And my eyes are heavy- with unshed tears.

For I see the time when. bright and glad,
In youth‘s fair world she will seek her p'ah, "
W'th but little thought for the woman sad,
Whom she leaves behind, with a lonely heart.
horas, Mich, April 28th, 1884.
--—- ._ Q0.

HOW MUCH SHALL SHE BEAR?

In one of A. H. J .‘s letters she asks what
the bride of a few months can do when
she finds her husband is a gambler, liber-

5-1? tine, drunkard, or heartlessly cruel, points

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out several paths she may choose. but
advises her to keep silent until her wrongs
.become unbearable, and let the world
firsthear them through legal steps for a
separation. This is the only dignified—I
had almost said decent—course, the only

' .‘ one a self respecting woman can pursue.
, To parade ahusband’s misdoings before

the public is not a wife’s part, no matter
how ill treated; the world should only
, know what it can see. ‘

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But the question how much a wife

should bear before resorting to man’s law
to release her from'the promises of her
wedding day, is of considerable moment.
There is no denying that this easy rupture
of the marriage bond is the great and
threatening danger of the times. The
- proportion. of divorces to marriages is

i something appalling, (it has doubled

within twenty years,) especially when we
remember that every divorce means a
home destroyed, a family sundered, and
generally children deprived of one or the'
other of their natural protectors. The re-
mark is often made that if people cannot
live together peaceably and happily, it is

better they should separate—and, in:

ferentially, each seek a new union and
greater harmouy. But this free and easy
change of- partnersleads directly to social

: that mankind is bound to hold sacred;
.andwould shortly place us upon a level
,With barbarous tribes, where family ties
are, cobweb fetters. 1 '

   

 

. ,' .. four legal grounds for separation,‘

nnfaithfulness, conviction of crime, habi

tual drunkenness and gross cruelty, have
been increased in some States to nine!
The charge of cruelty is made to cover
those who tire of their companion, see
some one they like better, or are inclined
to return’ to the old freedom of single
life. The legal gentleman of our dinner-
table remarked recently that four-fifths
of the divorces granted were for alleged
cruelty and “incompatibility of temper.”
The parties had simply tired of each other
and wanted to take another chance in the
matrimonial grab-bag. One item in the
bill of complaint in a divorce case was
the refusal of the husband to buy a fur-
lined circular for the wife! Asix-footer
weighing acouple of hundred avoirdupois
was released from a petite lady whom he
could almost have put in the pocket of
his Newmarket, on the grounds of “ex-
treme cruelty i” In nine cases out of ten
a third person waits just outside the
court-room, and when the decree is grant-
ed, the marriage of one or'the other of
the divorced parties follows quick upon
it. “ Marry in haste and repent till you
can get a divorce," seems the sentiment
of the day.

Shall a wife leave her husband because,
like the renowned “pumpkin eater,” he
has “married a ‘wife and cannot keep
her” in her accustomed luxury? Because
her married life does not come up to the
ideal existence she pictured, because her\
husband has grown careless and neglect-
ful, because she has allowed the deadly
chill of indifference to settle over her own
heart, because she has seen some one else
she likes better—none of these justify her.
Mutual forbearance is the vital necessity
of the married life. The secret of social
success is to wound no one’s self-love.
anl this gives us a key to help keep the
marriage relationship happy.

“ For still in mutual suifrance lies
The secret of true living;
Love scarce is love that nevrr knoWs
The sweetness of forgiving."

If the marriage tie were thought to be
more irrevocable, if the wife took the
pains to keep the husband that she did to
win the lover, if the husband would not
forget the courtesy and tenderness which
won him favor in his fiancee’a eyes, if both
would conspire to make love a constant
fireside guest, the coleur de rose would not
fade with the waning of the honeymoon.
What most destroys our happiness is so
often what we might blame-ourselves for,
our own follies and mistakes; ~

If a girl knows before marriage that

 

her husband-to-be drinks, gambles or is a‘

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libertine, but rests her happiness upon
the frail hope of reforminghim after-
ward, is she justified in appealing to the
law to release. her from a covenant she
entered into with her eyes open? The
Supreme Court of Iowa has just decided
this point, and girls contemplating mar

riage will do well to heed the warning.
The judge refused the petition of\a wife,
whose husband was a confirmed drunk-
ard, when the evidence showed she knew
him to be intemperate when she married
him, saying: “You voluntarily chose a
drunkard for a husband. His promise of
reformation made before marriage, does
not justify you> in deserting him. Having
knowingly married a drunkard, you
must content yourself with the relation-
ship.” The sentiment applies to other
conditions as well. Girls, if the young
man who comes wooing you has any of
these vices, which will so surely render
your life miserable if persisted in, wait;
let him reform first. If he will not re-_
form, and wait until you are convinced
that it is no passing spasm of amendment,
give him up, no matter how dear he is.
Better a sharp pain which time will heal,
(ah,.you think ‘you can “never get over
it,” but you will) rather than a wretched
lifetime spent in endurance; And when
you do marry, resolve to abide by your

bargain; bear all things, endure all things ;.4 "

and only seek release when both God’s
law and man’s agree in setting the union

aside. Bna'rmx.
H.“

THAT WOOD-BOX OF MINE.

 

I have spent my life thus far “'in a
struggle with dirt,” but now the unequal
warfare is atan end, and all because of
that wood-box of mine. In every farm-
er’s famil where the woman .does her

own work the kitchen is, in reality, the.

living room for the first half of the day,
and when a neighbor drops in of an er-
rand, or for a hasty morning call, they
are very likely to sit down there for afew
minutes’ chat while the woman goes on
with her work. The kitchen where “ I

am monarch of all I survey ” is large,

high, light, and pleasant, but instead of
giving su‘ch caller a seat with ease and
grace (i) I was always obliged to make a
dash for broom and dust-pan to brush up
the litter from the wood-box, that-was
filled to overflowing and scattering dirt
and bits of bark all over the region
round about. Much of the wood used by
farmers comes from the tops of trees used
fersawlogs or rails, or from “picking
up” the .1 woods, and such

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amount of litter. I know a house where

each separate stick is brushed before it is
carried into the kitchen, but a tired, hun.
gry farmer coming through the wood-
house to- "‘ load up ” on his way to dinner
is not apt to do that way. By the ar-
rangement of our kitchen it was carried
to the farther side of the room, leaving a
trail of litter to mark the path across the
carpet and all to be swept back again, the

‘process being as near perpetual motion as
’ anything I have known. We had ac-

cepted the situation during all these fif-

‘ « teen years because we thought there was

no remedy, but all in a day we planned it

. . otherwise, and now we are reveling in

the change. There’s nothing new about
eurplan, it is only one of those conveni-

' ences cut through the side wall and allow:

ing of being filled from the wood-house,
but with the stove moved near, for farther
convenience, the difference in the work is i
Try it, all ye working sis-
ters, and be convinced, for with all that
litter out of the way that room does not
now need sweeping but once a day.

" Another of our new conveniences is
-just such an open V drain as Beatrix de~
scribed a few weeks since, and on the

' very day that paper was received I had

christened it. We had tried various kinds

-‘ of underground conductors, but none

proved satisfactory, partly because of the
close proximity of the well; but this open
drain is made water-tight and carries the
slops to such a distance from the house
that it is simply perfect, with no clogging
or unhealthy odor, and it is entirely out
of; the way, and not visible from the

1 - street because of an evergreen hedge. I
’ assured “Eli” on that first day thatit
saved half the work of washing.

(The
opening is in the most convenient place
in the wood-house floor, so there’s no lift-
ing of tubs or pails.) He said: “ Well, if
that saves half, I’ll just fix. another one,
then the washing will do itself.” « This,
of course, destroyed my argument, but
did not lessen the convenience.

The convenience of a thing is in hav-
ing it convenient. Ihave in'mind a farm
housewhere there is an elaborately'con-
structed receiver'and drain therefrom,

. but the woman has to carry all the slops

from the kitchen across another large
room and the length of a long veranda to
get to it, and the cellar door is as far off
in another direction, but an architect
planned the fine house and all its belong-
ings, Many husbands have an equally
good idea of convenience, and go so far
as to say that a cupboard must be in a cer-
tain place, doors must open a certain way,
or the c10thes line he put where it is out
of their way, no matter how unhandy for
carrying the wet, heavy clothes. Sup-
posing a wife went into the barn that is
in process of building or repairing, and
commenced to dictate about the granary
or‘ the stables, wOuld'she not be ordered
back to the house as she deserved to be?
Is ,not the husband equally out of his
sphere in planning the arrangements of
the house? - ,
Thanking the Editor and members for
a kindly welcome, I. remain EL Slim.
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' TRAINING OUR DAUGHTERS.

For a long time I have wanted to be-
come one of the members of the House-
hold, and now I feel that I must enter
the ranks at once, or there will not be
room for me. I think the Household a
very nice little paper, and becoming bet-
ter everyweek. '

A great deal hhs'beefi written about the
probability of a school teacher’s making
a good housekeeper; and I want to say
a few words about the probability of
some of our young girls making good
housekeepers. There‘ are many young
ladies, even in families in ordinary cir-
cumstances, who do practically none of
the housework, the mother making a per
fect drudge of herself in order that he:
girls shall have “ a good time ;” saying to
herself that they will have it hard enough
when they get older, and that she wants
them to have a good time while they are
young. Now, I think, instead of doing
them a kindness, she is really and unin-
tentionally doing them a great wrong.

In the first place she is allowing them to .

live a selfish life by living upon the hard
work of others, by enjoying all the pleas-
ures while other members of the family
are doing all the work; in the second
place, an Idle life, or a life where there is
nothing done except for one’s own amuse-
ment, develops into a discontented, un-
happy one. I think, even in a family
where they are able to hire all the work
done, it is'much better for a girl to have
aregular part of the work to do each
morning, than to do merely something
which she happens to pick up “ just to
pass away the time.” Again, every girl,
no matter what the family circumstances

are, ought to be taught to do all kinds of'

housework and to sew well enough to
make her own clothes, because some time
she may find it necessary to do these
things, and then it will be so much easier
.if she has had some experience.

I think a girl who has done nothing but
follow out her own inclinations will not
make as good a housekeeper, and will not
make as happy and contented a woman,
,as one who has been taught to lend a
helping hand and work for the happiness
of others. ‘ PRUDENCE.

ALBION, April 24th. e

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SOME GOOD IDEAS.

“ Now I have finished the weekly wash
for eight of us, and ' done up my dinner
work, I must sweep and dust all through
and bake pie and cake, so the children
can have a variety to take to school early
in the morning; and I must have it all
done and dress changed by four o’clock,
because the teacher boards here, and will
not excuse me for being lazy, if the rest
of the family dn.” Thus my thoughts
ran a few days ago, as I picked up a
Household and happened to notice B.’s
remark, “The longer -I live the more
respect I have for people who never hur-
ry.” I was very tired, and that remark
struck me very favorably, so I concluded
to profit by it, especially as I had just re-
covered from a sick headache, the plague

of my life. So I dressed up a little, and

.to hate it.

 

I .

sat down to rest and read the last number

of our delightful little Household 'clear . ‘

through. .I mean to keep them all and
have them bound. I felt so much rested
after reading, that I also took up the
FABMER and perused that also, and by
that time I felt so much more rested that
I went about my work with pleasure. I
soon had cookies .baked, and when my.

eight-year-old daughter came from school, -

I asked her to stir up a cake and bake it
for me and she was glad to do so. I teach
my girls to do plain cooking while young,
and they take delight in it, but I am care.
ful not to ask them to do too much of it,
for fear they will dislike it as they grow
older. We got along without pie until
morning, and although the. house was not
cleared of every particle of dust, it was
sufficiently clean to enjoy a plain but
wholesome supper, and a merry evening
afterward, and when I retired I had not
the dread of sick headache the next day
from overwork, as I had many times be-
fore, in trying to do two days’ work in
one. .

I think if farmers’ wives would think
more of their health than of dust and
rich victuals, they could make their work
easier in many cases. And when the
children are crying “ Ma, what can I do?"
set them at some light task, that'will save
you a few steps and be teaching them at
the same time. I used to think if mother
would let me do some cooking or baking,
anything almost, but wash dishes, I would
be happy; and I always said if my girls
hated to wash them as bad as I did, (and
most of them do) I would wash them my-
self. I find my girls are not exceptions;
they do not like it either, and if there is

any thing else I can have them do, I let '

them do other work, and I wash the
dishes. I like it now as much asI used
I think the secret of making
dishwashing a pleasure, is in having

plenty of hot suds, and hot rinsing watch.»

then clean wiping towels and then wash'
them quickly as possible. Don’t dawdle
and play over it, girls; wash them fast
and they will be done before you know it,
and take pleasure in seeing what a nice
job you have done to help mother.

0. B. R.
Vrcxsmme, April 22nd.

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THE FAMILY GARDEN. ‘
Beatrix’s remarks about the kitchen

garden are very seasonable and pertinent,
but it is one thing to sit in a sanctum and

makea garden on paper, and quite an-'

other to make it in dirty dirt. Now we
usually have a very good garden, my bet-
ter half having a weakness for fresh
vegetables. From reading so much about
the healthfulness of outdoor work for
women, I boldly announced, last spring,
that if the ground were prepared, I would
make' and tend the garden. Golden
visions of overflowing dishes on the table
and bins in the cellar filled my poor
brain, for this was to be no ordinary gar:
den,——and it proved quite extraordinary
before I got through with it. Of my suc-
cess with the earlier vegetables I will not
speak; “ silence is golden; ” suffice it to
say, they did not make us sick. Now I

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. had always thought it a needless waste of
land toplant cabbages so far apart, so I
> .’ planted mine so near together that they
‘; seemed to share my own “lofty” ambi-
j; tion, and I began to seriously think of
~'; tying them to poles, after the manner of
“Lima beans. Bugs and worms feasted
upon them, while we did not—and I sat
'Surelv there

I. triumph over matter, for a small amount

.: of brain work to take the place of so

'much muscular exertion. Had. not Prof.

would do their work in August?
1 observed that the eggs were deposited on

75.

'Cook said the last brood of butterflies
I had

5 the loose outer leaves of .the cabbages,

_; and here was a bright idea, so the first
week in September I stripped them of

I: think how I had outwitted the worms;

_overy loose leaf. Standing on the. stoop

1' I rubb’ed my calloused hands gleefully to

E but those cabbages did look so funny,

standing there so tail, that I cannot think

‘5‘ of them to-day, without laughing,‘and I

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‘j contract from the government to furnish

lighthouses at a merely nominal cost to
the people, but of course with great profit

‘ I to myself. But it is enough to say nature
rebelled at such a mutilation, and not one

3 ‘ head of cabbage found its
cellar.

way to the

Well, the fate of the cabbage was but

7-} the fate of everything else (with varia-

,
,

j tions), except squashes'andtomatoes, and

they flourished luxuriantly, until an un-
1-;- timely frost destroyed the vines, leaving

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.. ._ the ground literally covered with squashes

'; noses.

‘been lawfully deposed I cannot tell; I

at which even the pigs turned up their
Whether I have abdicated or

; only know that I do not now hold the
position of head gardener around this es-

tablishment.
2.7 was no lack of hoeing. .I begin to think

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.; . ing with some excellent desserts, which

But I can assure you there

with H. W. Beecher, that if you wish to

- get rid of Canada thistles, “try raising
’ L them for profit.”

Mas. W. J. G.
Howrah. April 24th.

COOKING SCHOOL DESSERTS
Miss Parloa provided her class in cook-

were highly commended by the ladies,
who with plate and spoon in hand, tasted,

criticised and approved.

A delicious dessert, at once cheap and
healthful. is Charlotte Russe, which the
instructress prepared in the following

..._fashion: She lined the sides and bortom
of a mould with lady-fingers, cutting

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them in two lengthwise. One quart of
_> 7 good cream was then whipped up with

__1 a \whip churn, and sprinkled into it

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~ three-fourths of a cup of sugar and a

" lteaspoonful of vanilla. One-half pound

.1, of gelatine had been soaked for two

hours previous, in half a cup of cold
water. and a half cup of boiling water
was now added to it, and the whole pour-
ed into the whipped cream. The mixture
was stirred at first from the bottom gen?

_ tly, then thoroughly throughout, and it

was soon thick enough to pour into the
mould, carefully, not to demolish the
rampart of lady-fingers. The mould

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was then set into a pan of ice water,
and in a couple of minutes was hard
enough to turn out and serve.

Imperial pudding is made after the fol-
lowing formula: Put half a box of gela—
tine to soak in half a cup of cold water-
Wash half a cup of rice, and put it on
to boil in one quart of cold water. When
the water boils, pour it off and turn on
one pint of milk; place in the double
boiler and cook one hour; then add half
ateaspoonful of salt, one cup of sugar,
four tablespoonfuls of wine and the gela-
tine, stir well and set in a basin of ice
water; 'stir frequently till cold, then add
one pint of cream which has been whip-
ped to a froth. Stir down and turn into
a mould to harden on ice. Serve with a
strawberry sauce, made by stirring a half
cupful of strawberry preserve into a
quart of whipped cream. The preserve
is to be rubbed through a strainer to take
out the seeds. 1

Frozen pudding, which after the usual
feminine fashion was pronounced “just
too delicious for anything,” was prepared
after this recipe: Let one pint of milk
come to a boil; beat a scant half cupful
of flour, one cup of granulated sugar and
two eggs together, and stir into the boil-
ing milk. Cook twenty minutes and add
two tablespoonfuls of gelatine which has

been soaked. for two hours in water

enough to cover it, then set away to cool.
After cooling stir in four tablespoonfuls

of wine, one cupful of granulated sugar,.

and a quart of cream; freeze ten minutes
in an ice-cream freezer, then stir in one
pound of candied fruit and finish freez-
ing. Turn from the mould and serve
with whipped cream.
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HOW TOM’S WIFE MAKES PRINT
DRESSES.

E1 See made ‘her salt-rising bread so
good and so easy to make (on paper), that
I was deluded into trying it, and I wish
El See could have eaten (no, not eaten,
for it certainly .would have killed her,
and all good salt-rising bread makers
ought to be spared), but have seen some
of it. When I stirred it up over night I
said to Tom, “Strange, is’nt it, that flour,
salt and water will rise?” But it never
did rise the second time. I made‘the
yeast Ollieann told us about, and never in
my life didI have as nice bread and his-
cuit. Tell us about the other good things
you make for tea, please.

I feel like thanking Beatrix for the
glimpses she gives us of Detroit styles,
and wonder if a pretty way of making a
calico dress would be acceptable. I made
myself one this spring, the front and side
breadths of which I gored and finished at
the bottom with two ruflles three inches
wide, an apron overskirt two-thirds the
length of the skirt gathered at the sides,
and simply slashed at the bottom, the
back of the skirt was two wide breadths,
perfectly plain, gathered full at the top,
no overskirt at the back. A Garabaldi
waist, rolling collar and coat sleeves
finish it. Another pretty one is made
with a close fitting basque coming down
well over the‘hips, with two box plaits
laid under at the waist, four straight

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breadths shirred on the bottom for askirt;
pretty rufiled pockets, and rolling collar
finish it. We have all had trouble with

'the bottom of the hem wearing of! our .

white skirts. A remedy for that is to
take the coarsest rick-rack braid you can
find, and crochet a chain on it, and sew
on the bottom of your skirt.

It was a terrible feeling that came over
me when I read in E. Hafi’s article, that
both ends of a match must be used before
we are truly economical. Now I would
prefer being called wasteful, to holding a
match in.my fingers until it was all
burned.

I know a lady who is what she'calls
economical; she says she seldom eats with
the family, that if she waits there are
usually fragments enough left for her
meal, that would be dry and wasted be-
fore the next. How many of us care to

save in that way? Tom’s WIFE.
Coors-a, April 28th.

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APPRECIATIVE WORDS.

Having taken the FARMEB for a length
of time, and being a silent but interested'
reader, I should feel lost without it. I
think it a great deal nicer in its new form
than before, although it was splendid!
then; it is something I have long been
wishing for._ Before the advent of the new
Household, I could not get a peep at the‘ -
paper when the mail was brOught home, ’
as my husband is very much interested'
in farming and stock raising, and we
could not both read very conveniently
out of one paper, at one and the same
time, but now, thanks to ye Editor, I can‘
have my Household all by myself, and:
happiness seems almost complete.

I have tried E. S. B.’s recipe, we all
pronounce it splendid. I enclose a recipe
for bread-cake, which ought to accompany ‘
E. S. B.’s recipe; would like the members'
to try it and report. a. n. B.

Sam“, April 28th.

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.THAT BASHFUL GIRL.

We often hear a parent or guardian re- .
mark that a certain child is. so bashful he .
doesn’t "know what to do with her; and
we always feel that if he has never suffer~

ed from “that indescribable shrinking-
from his fellow-beings, has never had

hands and feet become suddenly promin-

ent, with the notice of the public fastened
upon them; he can not know anything

about it, and is apt to treat the affection

in amanner that aggravates instead of

cures it.

The victim of bashfulness is over-cau- .
tious and sensitive and lacks self-confi-
dence; and above all things, she should
never be teased or laughed at. She is .
keenly aware of every defect in form and
feature, and thinks other people pay just
as much attention to them as she does.
The lesson she needs most is that of self-
forgetfulness. and it is a delicate and dif-
ficult one to teach; while nothing but a
knowledge of- the world and daily contact
with it, can give her that confidence in
herself and ease in society so essential to
happiness and success. I think it a good
plan to teach her that people do not give

her half the attention that she imagines, ~ I;

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while the benefit of their friendship, and

acquaintance would prove a great deal
-more; to dress her neatly, especially
about the hands and feet; and take her
from home as often as possible; encour-
‘ing her in every way to notice people and
objects of interest, and to think less of

. herself. But whatever you do. don’t

laugh at her when you learn that she
was afrain to enter a neighbor’s house, or

_ hid away instead of meeting your guests,
for you can have no idea of the painful
pictures drawn by her morbid imagina-
tion, Merely assure her of your afiec-
tionate interest in her welfare, and try
to show her that by overcoming this
troublesome habit she will add much to
your happiness as well as her own.

. . A. H. J.
Tnor'us, April 28th.

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nousEHorLD mm.

The rubber rings used to assist in keep-_
‘ .'ing the air from fruit cans, sometimes be-

come sodry and brittle as to be almost
useless. They can be restored toanormal
condition, usually, says the 'Popular
.Saimee Monthly, by letting them lie in
water in which you have put a little
, ammonia mixed in the proportion of one
part of ammonia and two parts water.
Sometimes they do not need to lie in this
more than five minutes, but frequently
a half hour is needed to restore their

‘ elasticity.

.The high "caster and cake basket are

‘. now banished from fashionable tables,
_ ' and there is nothing upon 'them more
‘ , , aspiring than the competes for preserved

fruits. The butter dishes, . salt cellars,
cruets, and other individual dishes with
which it is the fancy to surround the

. plate, are all very fanciful in shape, and

very much decorated. There are dainty
pitchers in craquelle ware, the tinted glass
through which run‘ lines as if it had been
cracked in many directions, and leaves
and flower. pieces in bisque adapted to
table purposes. We eat ice cream from
green grape leaves, veined and mottled,
and cheese cups are tiny barrels, with
each a Neufchatel cheese in it, and a
silver scoop to eat it with.

'Not infrequently the housekeeper is
driven to hateful untidiness by the lack
of acloset in her sleeping room, provision
for . which should have been made when
The Philadelphia

Prm describes a substitute which we
have seen used to good purpose in this
city: “ Drive a number of nails into the
wall at the height desired, or choose such
a place if pegs are already attached. Have
a wooden shelf fastened above the’i'ow of
nails or pegs, the shelf being wide enough
to extend some distance out over the pegs.
Upon the floor, against the wall, beneath
the pegs, place a number of boxes, of
pasteboard or ,wood. These will form
convenient receptacles for small articles,
while dresses and the like may be suspend-
ed from the pegs. Then, to the edge of
"the wooden shelf, attach flowing curtains
of chinta, cretonne, or other suitable
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and full enough" to cover clothes, pegs,
boxes and all. Arrange the curtains in a
full at the top so that they rise above the
shelf as a border, and hide the wood. The
curtains may be further ornamented by
bows of ribbon. Upon the shelf may be
disposed books, a Parian bust, a vase of
flowers, afew Japanese fans, or any other
small article of use “Or beauty.”

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SCRAPS.

It is in “ Cranford," that charming
chronicle ofvillage. life, that the assertion
is made that every woman has her pet
economy. There is an old saying tothe
efiect that every housekeeper, no matter
how painfully neat in other respects, has
her one “dirty streak.” So most of us
have some one thing about which we are
more fastidious than others. Not many
years ago an extremely nice individual,
who desired to make converts to his
particular idiosyncrasy, sent out one hun-
dred thousand postal cards in the interests
of teaspoons. He wanted everybody to
put the spoons in the holder with the
bowls down, so that whoever helped him-
self would not in so doing finger the por-
tion of the spoon soon to enter the mouth
of another. As it cost him over $1,000
to thus promulgate his views, we must
credit him with a deal of earnestness in
his peculiar “fad.” And yet, isn't there
something in it?

Here are some of George Macdonald’s
thoughts on the question of work for
women, put into the mouth of one of his
characters: “A man would be thought a
downright sinner if he brought up his
lads like maist fathers bring up their
lasses. Women are reared and expectit
to live sic lives as only scoundrels 0’ men
choose for theirselves—hinging roon, eat-
ing ither folks’ bread, and waiting for
deid men’s shoon. * * * Mak’ a
bein’ responsible, an’ it will be responsi-
ble. Tak’ it on yourself, an’ there it will
lie. * * * An’ when she’s mar~
ried she’ll stop nae ’mair wage fra’ the
man’s hand, an’ she’ll ken its value when
she has it tO spend. An’ if you winna’
teach some lasses how to earn that may
never want to do it, then ye maun hae
auld women wanting to earn when it is
too late to learn. * * * There is
a beauty 0' blossoms in an Orchard in
spring, an’ a beauty 0’ ripe fruit in
autumn. The blossoms 0’ youth are the
hopes we have from the world, and the
apples of age are the hopes and helps we
can tie to it.”

Madame Mojeska, the great tragedi-
says that a homely woman who
knows how to dress is far more attractive
than a pretty one in slovenly attire, or
dressed in unsuitable, ill-fitting garments.
A becoming hat, a quiet dress, made well
and accurately fitted, will do marvels in
the way of sheltering personal defects.
A woman’s dress is a kind of. personal
glossary. Nine-tenths of the dress is the
fit; if good it will redeem a twenty-five
cent rep; if poor, it will ruin a satin de
Lyon. There are three points a woman
should never lose sight of, herposition,

 

She Ought ? :-
her best .'_

her age, and her weak points.

to know the latter better than
friend or her worst enemy. .. “When
youth, the dream, departs,” then is the

time dress is potent. Then she should be :
more careful than ever, dress in dark, 1
warm, neutral tints, exquisitely fitting, .'
but simply made. She should aim to be i:
genteel and elegant rather than fashion-
able, and ignore all eccentricities of the 5

variable goddess.

Isn’t this true, girls? “ A girl who is in ,,
love with a young fell'ow never sees his ;
disadvantages. , She feels that by proper pf
treatment and advice there is no position
in the world that he cannot fill. in time, . a
and she decides then and there to put him ,
in training for the Presidency. No mate ‘7-
ter if his head is number six and slopes‘ "
the wrong way, she thinks it will fill out. p.
She is going'to do her best on him any~ ,.
way. Take nine girls in ten who marry '
little shrimps or big awkward boys, and
talk to them in confidence, and. they will .«
tell you that their husband is bound to '
make his mark in the world, and that he ,
will be President some day.” B.

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[T is with pleasure the Household Edi-
tor notes the interest manifested in the
“little paper,” and the ever increasing
corps of contributors. All are welcome,
and all most cordially invited to come
again and yet again, While there is room.
for many more; “'the more the merrier.’
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MRs'. M. A. FULLER writes us that she
will extend the time of receiving orders
for garden plants, until May 15th. the
season being so backward.

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Contributed Recipes.

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BREAD Cum—Three cups. of bread-dough,
(that is wheneready for putting in loaves) ; one»
and one-half cups sugar; two-thirds cup of
shortening (butter or meat fryings); two eggs ;
one teaspoonful soda, same of cinnamon and
nutmeg; one cup raisins; other fruit if wished;
knead with the hand until thoroughly mixedr
using no flour; put in two loayes; bake imme-
diately. E. E. B.

Sann

LEMON JnLLY.—Soak half abox of gelatiue
in half a pint of water for half an hour. Meas-
ure out two cupfuls of loaf sugar, and rub the
pieces of sugar on the peel of five lemons till»
the oil of the lemons isabsorbed by the sugar.
Pour a pint and a half of boiling water on the
soaked geletine, and add the juice of the "lem-
ons, the sugar and the white and shell of an
egg well beaten; let it come to a boil, set
aside on the stove a few minutes; skim care-
fully and pass through the jelly-bag into-
moulds. '

RHUBARB or pieplant may not only be pre- a
served in cans, but may be made into jelly. .
After rinsing the stalks in cold water, cut them
in pieces, and with only about enough water to
cover them; put them in a porcelain kettle;. 3
let them boil until nothing seems to be left ‘
but a soft pulp. Strain through a flannel jelly
bag. To each pint of this juice add a pound
of sugar, let it boil after putting the sugar in,
and try it by taking out a little and putting it
on a cold plate; when it “ jellies ” at once, it
is safe to pour it into bowls. Mas". D

Dn-rnorr.